In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.
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